CITRON TRANS-ASIATIC EXPEDITION REACHES KASHMIR
"THE
ROSETTA STONE OF ASIA," ON THE BEHISTUN ROCK NEAR KERMANSHAH
This impressive monument of Darius the Great consists of four parts: the relief sculptures
and the trilingual inscriptions. Almost a century has elapsed since the young English officer,
Henry Rawlinson, climbed the dangerous cliff and, with the help of a plucky Kurdish boy, suc
ceeded in obtaining copies of the inscriptions which proved to be the key to the lost language and
history of Babylonia and Assyria (see, also, text, page 403).
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